Steam may be more powerful than you think. It smooths clothes and kills germs, but now doctors are testing it against cancer. At Keck Medicine of USC, part of a large nationwide study, researchers are ...

Francis Medical has obtained $80 million in venture capital funding to support the development of its water vapor ablation therapy for cancers of the prostate, kidneys and bladder. The series C round ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Francis Medical’s Vanquish device for treating intermediate-risk prostate cancer has been cleared by the US Food and Drug ...

In a trial, the ProFocal device for intermediate-risk prostate tumor ablation had an 84% treatment success rate with low morbidity. Cooled laser focal therapy ablation using a novel device (ProFocal®; ...

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Prostate cancers are either low-grade, low-risk forms that may be monitored but otherwise untreated, or they’re serious enough to require surgery and radiation. Monitoring can cause patients anxiety.

LATHAM, N.Y.--(BUSINESS WIRE)-- AngioDynamics, Inc. (NASDAQ: ANGO), a leading and transformative medical technology company focused on restoring healthy blood flow in the body’s vascular system, ...

Before having Aquablation (water ablation) therapy, it is essential to check that the treatment, equipment, medical facility, and healthcare professional are Medicare-approved and that the person ...

Prostate cancer patients may soon have a new option to treat their disease: laser heat. UCLA researchers have found that focal laser ablation - the precise application of heat via laser to a tumor - ...